[mythtv-users] Why would this happen?

[Brian Wood]

Bruce Nordstrand wrote:
> Bit peeved at the moment. Myth has been running flawlessly for months 
> then suddenly decided to do the dirty on my most important recordings. I 
> am recording the Tour de France every day. Last night, Myth showed Stage 
> 2 as recording and went on to flag commercials (I saw this in the task 
> list). Today when I went to watch Stage 2 Myth tells me the file for 
> this recording cannot be found? WTF!!! Where would it go? There was 65Gb 
> free at this stage, the recordings are approx 6.5Gb.
> 
> Any reason why this would happen?

Have you ever heard of Edsel Murphy?

But seriously, if you can get to a command line prompt and start
checking filesystem integrity, then look for the file itself, without
Myth, you might find it.

Your file(s) may be perfectly OK, you might just have a database problem.

BEWW